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1983 Limited Edition Resto/with some goodies

So Bill (WE3RX7) has been on me to make a build thread about my project so here we go. Bill I need some pictures of progress if you still have them lol

I bought the car in Feb. 08 for $1200 it was in pretty good shape no rust and 65k on her, and missing the LE wheels. Latter on Brian (Bigpimpin) hooked me up with a RB intake/Holley and header so I started to tear into it In process of that I also picked up and new ACT HD street/strip clutch from ebay and a techna fit braided clutch line. I had issues with the tune and getting the omp set right and ruined at set of plugs and got pissed up. Not to mention I ended up having ignition issues and found a bad J109 :mad: So the LE sat for a while and I collect my thoughts on this, and it got the best of me I started to nit pick and tore the engine bay apart due to a stain left by a leaking windshield washer tank. So that's how it sat until just this week! I forgot to mention I got real lucky again and picked up a set of near mint LE wheels from Brian for a trade of GS cross wheels with fresh tires, but they were powder coated red :dunno:
So I moved the car from my parents house in BFE to my shop in Manassas, and decide to finish what I started 3 years ago.
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So some of the pictures are going to be out of order, I have a few on my laptop and bill has a few and the rest I have to dig of my old hard drive.
Stock and very dirty
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My bad idea that turned into a 3 years of doing nothing
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WTF was I thinking????

Yea I know its a little out of order for a time line, but like I said a lot of the pictures of when I first bought the car are located on my old hard drive. I'm going to try and get it in order the best I can but cant make any promises! lol...

engine bay looks pretty nice there. how long did that take to do?

It was all done in stages but I would have to say 5 hours or so.. Lots of prep time about 20 min in painting lol

Restorations make me.... Frisky....

Not sure about Frisky? :dunno: But I didnt feel as excited as I figured I would be after layin a fresh coat of paint, more like damn all that for 20 min of spray time and now I got to put this shit all back together!!

Key point - put that shit back together :)

Next step... grab the engine and bring it up to the shop... get it cleaned up and lowered back in the hole.

Oh don't worry you will have almost as much build time on the LE as your FC when im done with you!! lol

I'd have to work on your LE for another 6 years to catch up, lol...

Now, get some more pics tomorrow when you get it all untaped and the front end back on her...

Thanks for the comments!! So I got the tape and plastic off need to get some pictures up. Got a question to all that have done a project like this before. Whats the best method of cleaning up all the hardware, I was thinking of just wire brushing them, but will that cause them to rust faster?? Im sure paint wouldnt stand up to tools tighting them back up.

^ new hardware really is the best way. I took a quick wire brush to mine, painted them and went from there. The paint didnt hold perfectly, but everything still looks good...